Birthdays

Miss Julie Andrews, actress and singer, 57; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, 84; Mr Moran Caplat, former Glyndebourne administrator, 76; Mr Jimmy Carter, former US president, 68; Mr Roy de Courcy Chapman, headmaster, Malvern College, 56; Cardinal Cahal Daly, archbishop of Armagh, 75; Mr Sandy Gall, broadcaster, 65; Mr John Gunnell MP, 59; Professor Sir Stuart Hampshire, philosopher, 78; Mr Richard Harris, actor, 59; Major David Jamieson VC, 72; Mr Graham Leach, radio news foreign correspondent, 44; Mr Walter Matthau, actor, 72; Mr Peter Nobes, chief constable of West Yorkshire, 57; Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, educationist, 80; Professor John Reid, Materia Medica authority, 49; Professor Sir Roland Smith, chairman, British Aerospace, 64; Sir Robert Telford, life president of Marconi, 77; Professor Jean Thomas, biochemist, 50; Mr Geoffrey Whitehead, actor, 53; Mr James Whitmore, actor, 71.